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P. A. Hoidale, in charge of eradication of the Mexican fruit worn, 
with headquarters at Harlingen, Tex., was in Washington June 10 to June 25 
to review with Doctor Baker the results of the work there, and to confer 
With Doctors Marlatt and Fracker, of the Federal Horticultural Board, and 
S, A. Rohwer, of the Bureau of Entomology, on plans for the work to be con-— 
ducted in the future. 
Frank Irons, Dave Isler and H. W. Goyings, of the corn borer engi- 
neering staff at Toledo, Ohio, called at the Harlingen office early in 
June. 
‘ _ The work in June of the Mexican fruit worm project in the lower 
Rio Grande Valley of Texas consisted mostly in completing a census of host 
fruits, compiling the resulting data, and keeping summer hosts under sur- 
veillance to prevent the development of the fruit. 
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BEE CULTURE INVESTIGATIONS 
James I. Hambleton, in Charge 
Jas. I. Hambleton spent the early part of the week of June 4 
in Baton Rouge, La., completing arrangements for the establishment of 
the bee-culture field station authorized by the last session of Con- 
gress. The station will be established in connection with the University 
of Louisiana, which has offered the Bureau of Entomology laboratory 
Quarters, heat, light, janitor services, and certain funds for the pur- 
chase of equipment. The work there will begin shortly after July 1, with 
W. J. Nolan, of the Washington office, temporarily in charge. 
Dr. H. E. Barnard, president of the American Honey Institute, 
Indianapolis, Ind., conferred with officials of the Department of Ag=> 
riculture and Department of Commerce in the week of June 18 concerning 
the activities of his organization. The American Honey Institute, whose 
frimary purpose is to increase the sale of honey through educational 
means, is financed by the Bee Industries Association of America, which 
is composed of the principal manufacturers of beekeepers' supplies, 
honey bottles, and other merchandise relating to apiaries and their 
products. 
Miss Winifred S. Hull, a medical student of Johns Hopkins Univer- 
Sity, has been appointed temporary Field Assistant, to assist in the 
diagnosis of bee diseases, and to examine samples of adult bees to de- 
termine whether the Isle of Wight disease is present in the United States. 
